The Tropical Atlantic in the Age of Slave Trade

Essays on Global and Comparative History

by Philip D. Curtin

Book by Curtin, Philip D.

47 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1991

About the author

Philip DeArmond Curtin, 22 May 1922 - 4 June 2009, was a wide-ranging and influential historian whose pioneering use of modern statistical methods to determine the extent of the Atlantic slave trade suggested that far fewer slaves were transported from Africa than had previously been thought.